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by IlikeKitties 239 days ago
> The web is mobile. Build for that reality.

Ugh. That thinking is what gets you things like mandatory login via apps for your desktop. And not every application makes sense on a phone. And some Web Applications just require low latency high bandwidth internet to work properly.

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> some Web Applications just require low latency high bandwidth internet to work properly.

But the vast majority do not. And this haranguing is an opportunity / defensible position to put more efforts and resources into performances. If nothing else, think of it as a Trojan horse to make software suck less.

> But the vast majority do not. yeah and that's why they are shit and barely work.

Even a php app without decorations would be faster and better for most applications.

>If nothing else, think of it as a Trojan horse to make software suck less.

My experience has been that the proliferation of mobile devices has made my desktop experience consistently worse and I struggle to come up with an example where it didn't.

> That thinking is what gets you things like mandatory login via apps for your desktop.

"the web is mobile" = strictly "apps" ?